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studios, we immediately realize that these cannot be considered in isolation, The question of achieving progress in our field is intimately linked up with the overall problems of the role of classical languages in the University studies and outside. We can well take up these matters in the concluding session of the Seminar.
It is our good fortune that in spite of his advanced age and delicate health, Revered Panditji Sukhialji has kindly complied with our request to grace the Seminar with his presence and perform the inauguration, The blessings and advice of a veteran scholar of his stature would certainly serve to inspire and guide the work of the Seminar.
• Many of you have come from long distances, putting up with consi. derable personal inconvenience and disturbing your current plans and programmes. It is happily ndicative of a deep concern for the advancement of Prakrit studies. We are thankful to you all and we earnestly hope that our meeting would be quite fruitful and rewarding and it will achieve the basic objectives of such a Seminar.
With the means at our disposal we have tried to make suitable arrangements for the stay of the delegates, and we are grateful to Gujarat Vidyapith for their generous co-operation in this regard. We mention also with deep gratitude the advice and active assistance, we have received throughout from Prof. Dalsukhbhai Malavoja, the Director of L. D. Institute of Indology.
In spite of our best intention and efforts, there are likely to be some faults of commission and omission on our part, for which we crave your tolerance and indulgence.
I thank you once more for the ready response and kind co-operation that we have received from you.
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